The Tour
Up to the beginning of the twentieth century those that could afford it would travel through France, Italy and other countries, sometimes as far as Egypt, to have a look at what Britain either owned or used to own or fancied having a go at in the future.
Ostensibly to broaden horizons and educate The Grand Tour enabled generations of English men and women as well as some of their European cousins to make themselves unpopular across wide areas of Europe and Africa.
See also modern-day Americans 'doing' Europe